How to share a book with Your Child

5 Components of Reading:

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words.
http://www.readingresource.net/phonemicawarenessactivities.html
Phonics is the relationships between letters and their corresponding sounds
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm
Vocabulary can be defined as the knowledge of words and their meanings. Vocabulary knowledge is critical for getting meaning from text.
This site includes vocabulary, spelling, and games for all ages of elementary students
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/foreign-language/
Fluency is the ability to read an appropriate rate, proper phrasing and minimal errors for comprehension. Decoding words is part of fluency, but knowing sight words, as many common words cannot be sounded out.
http://w4.nkcsd.k12.mo.us/~kcofer/fry_words_pg.htm Fry High frequency Words - download flashcards
http://www.ehow.com/how_4472206_improve-reading-fluency.html
Comprehension: To understand what is read, retell a story, identify the main idea and details, compare and contrast characters
http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?sort_order=relevance&q=Reading+Comprehension&srchgo.x=0&srchgo.y=0&old_q=

Websites to help with reading:

http://www.starfall.com/ for beginning readers
http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents for emerging readers
http://www.readingfoundation.org/parents.jsp for parent and teacher education

Free On-line stories

http://www.popularchildrenstories.com/
http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm#stories

Free Materials to Download:

Click on the site below. Pick your child's grade level and browse through printable
activities to help your child in reading!
http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/studentCenterActivities.shtm